About National Teams

The country’s best athletes earn the honor to represent Team USA at international competitions as a member of the US Squash National Team. US Squash selects, organizes and funds these teams, oversees team development and training, and provides direct financial support to the best American athletes.

US Squash serves as the only national governing body and membership organization for the sport in the United States, driving squash forward at every level, from grassroots to high performance programs. National Team players embody a core element of US Squash’s mission: “achieving competitive excellence at the highest levels.”

Fiechter and Amanda Sobhy Advance to Southwestern Open Quarterfinals

Team USA's Olivia Fiechter and Amanda Sobhy are through to the quarterfinals of the Southwestern Open after second round wins Thursday, September 28, at the Houston Squash Club. Both Fiechter and Sobhy opened up their campaigns with 3-0 victories to move on to the PSA Gold quarterfinals. Fiechter, the three seed, defeated Egypt's Sana Ibrahim 12-10, 11-7, 11-1 in thirty-eight minutes. “I’m really excited to get through that match, Sana was extremely aggressive and even until the...

Sabrina Sobhy Reaches Career High Ranking of World No. 13

Team USA's Sabrina Sobhy moved up three places in the PSA World Tour rankings this week to reach a new career high of world No. 13. With the points for the 2022 CIB Egyptian Open expiring, there have been a number of movements inside the women’s top twenty, and  Sobhy has been one of the beneficiaries. The likes of Tesni Evans and Sarah-Jane Perry have seen their rankings tumble, meaning Sobhy has broken into the top...

Houston Wild Card Navani Notches First Round Upset

Seventeen-year-old U.S. junior Riya Navani pulled off the first top fifty upset of her career, defeating Egypt's world No. 45 Nour Aboulmakarim in the first round of the Southwestern Open Wednesday, September 27, at Houston Squash Club. Navani--a top-ranked U.S. junior from California--was making just her second appearance as a wild card in a PSA Gold event, following up her debut last fall at the Oracle NetSuite Open. The American earned a 2-0 lead, but Aboulmakarim...

Book Review: Western Lane

From Squash MagazineWestern Lane By Chetna Maroo (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2023) by James Zug Chetna Maroo’s debut novel—short and tight, at 150-pages it is really a novella—is...